NOLA BOOK AND LITERARY NEWS

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PhotoNOLA’s IN PRINT Book signing this Friday

posted Dec 7, 2011
TOP ROW: Publish Your Photography Book by Darius D. Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson, Hurricane Story by Jennifer Shaw, Óyeme Con Los Ojos By Josephine Sacabo; MIDDLE ROW: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by Ashley Gilbertson, Tooth For An Eye by Deborah Luster, The Road to Somewhere by James A. Reeves; BOTTOM ROW: Preservation Hall By Shannon Brinkman and Eve Abrams, There Was a Forest: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Today by Loli Kantor
TOP ROW: Publish Your Photography Book by Darius D. Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson, Hurricane Story by Jennifer Shaw, Óyeme Con Los Ojos By Josephine Sacabo; MIDDLE ROW: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by Ashley Gilbertson, Tooth For An Eye by Deborah Luster, The Road to Somewhere by James A. Reeves; BOTTOM ROW: Preservation Hall By Shannon Brinkman and Eve Abrams, There Was a Forest: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Today by Loli Kantor

PhotoNOLA’s IN PRINT book signing event focuses on the publishing side of photography and highlights books by photographers features in the week-long annual photography festival (is PhotoNOLA a festival? I just get used to everything being a festival).

IN PRINT takes place from 5 — 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 9, at the Historic New Orleans Collection (410 Chartres Street). The eight photographers whose work will be featured will sign books, receive hobnobbers, and hopefully sell some merchandise so they can afford to buy their families Christmas presents. And speaking of Christmas presents, the books on hand might make some nice ones.

Our friends over at Pelican Bomb have written about two of the books, Deborah Luster’s Tooth for an Eye and Jennifer Shaw’s Hurricane Story (which also got a mention on Rm220), and Loli Cantor’s photographs will be on display at the Antenna Gallery Dec. 10 — Jan. 8.

PhotoNOLA 2011′s keynote lecture by Joséphine Sacabo immediately follows the IN PRINT book signing.

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